|
How to Build a Powerful Usage-Based Billing System
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-05-05 |
1,333 |
--
|
|
Best Practices for Billing Across the EU
|
-- |
2025-10-28 |
1,550 |
--
|
|
What Is The Van Westendorp Pricing Model And How Does It Work?
|
-- |
2025-09-15 |
1,497 |
--
|
|
Subscription Management for B2B SaaS Businesses: Best Practices and Strategies
|
-- |
2025-07-22 |
1,117 |
--
|
|
Pricing and Billing Guide: All the terms you need to know
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,476 |
--
|
|
Understanding the Pay-as-You-Go Pricing Model for SaaS Businesses
|
-- |
2025-06-18 |
1,314 |
--
|
|
7 Must-Have Features in Modern AI Billing Infrastructure
|
-- |
2025-05-23 |
1,024 |
--
|
|
How to Evaluate a Billing System? What Questions You Should Ask
|
-- |
2025-09-08 |
851 |
--
|
|
Should your SaaS company use usage-based pricing?
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,160 |
--
|
|
Launch Week III Day 2: Put a ring on it: Partner Billing
|
-- |
2025-05-15 |
137 |
--
|
|
Entitlements and billing should be the same system
|
-- |
2025-09-10 |
1,113 |
--
|
|
What is enterprise billing and how does it work?
|
-- |
2025-08-26 |
1,121 |
--
|
|
Why DeepSeek had to be open-source (and why it won't defeat OpenAI)
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
871 |
--
|
|
Top Billing Platforms Compared: Which One Fits Your Business?
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
967 |
--
|
|
Launch Week IV Day 1: Alerts and Budget Limits
|
-- |
2025-06-16 |
260 |
--
|
|
Launch Week III Day 3: Record manual and partial payments in Lago
|
-- |
2025-05-15 |
94 |
--
|
|
Prepaid Credits vs Progressive Billing for Usage-Based Billing
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
895 |
--
|
|
Launch Week III Day 5: Effortless Docker deployment in a single command
|
-- |
2025-05-15 |
82 |
--
|
|
Is Y Combinator worth it from Europe? 4 European founders answer
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,339 |
--
|
|
7 AI Pricing Models and Which to Use for Profitable Growth
|
-- |
2025-06-20 |
2,590 |
--
|
|
The ultimate Salesforce package for effortless billing
|
-- |
2025-05-30 |
416 |
--
|
|
The Full Playbook: How to Design Usage-Based Pricing Models
|
-- |
2025-10-07 |
2,175 |
--
|
|
I reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,701 |
--
|
|
Top 7 Alternatives to Recurly for usage-based Billing
|
-- |
2025-08-12 |
1,941 |
--
|
|
Introducing Progressive Billing: Usage-Based Billing Done Right
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
669 |
--
|
|
OpenAI shouldn't do credits in ChatGPT
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
722 |
--
|
|
What is events-based billing and how does it work?
|
-- |
2025-08-11 |
1,603 |
--
|
|
AI Billing That Works: Smart Solutions for Complex Revenue Models
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,158 |
--
|
|
What are open-source billing systems and which should you choose?
|
-- |
2025-11-14 |
1,464 |
--
|
|
Fixing Latency Issues in Webflow Using Relume
|
-- |
2025-05-30 |
850 |
--
|
|
What are feature entitlements and how do they work?
|
-- |
2025-09-01 |
1,515 |
--
|
|
What is usage-based revenue recognition and how does it work?
|
-- |
2025-06-26 |
916 |
--
|
|
How open can Stripe be?
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,349 |
--
|
|
Should you build or buy usage-based billing?
|
-- |
2025-09-25 |
1,356 |
--
|
|
What is billing compliance and how does it work?
|
-- |
2025-09-19 |
996 |
--
|
|
Dynamic Pricing: Capture Usage for Variable Rates
|
-- |
2024-11-14 |
613 |
--
|
|
Role-based access: billing as a workflow
|
-- |
2025-05-20 |
377 |
--
|
|
Launch Week III Day 1: Back to the future with invoice previews
|
-- |
2025-05-15 |
166 |
--
|
|
Top 7 Alternatives to Chargebee for usage-based Billing
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,784 |
--
|
|
Why building a self-hosted SaaS is a headache (and how we make …
|
-- |
2025-08-05 |
1,262 |
--
|
|
Billing Models That Supercharge Tech Company Revenue Growth
|
-- |
2025-05-15 |
1,089 |
--
|
|
Top 7 Alternatives to Stripe Billing for usage-based Billing
|
-- |
2025-08-12 |
1,948 |
--
|
|
How usage-based pricing increases NRR
|
-- |
2025-08-18 |
1,553 |
--
|
|
How to Achieve GDPR Compliance Effectively: A Focus on SaaS Billing Models
|
-- |
2025-10-02 |
1,820 |
--
|
|
How to Monetize Developer Tools with Usage-Based Billing
|
-- |
2025-06-02 |
929 |
--
|
|
What Is Consumption-Based Pricing?
|
-- |
2025-09-25 |
1,019 |
--
|
|
Launch weeks: How to do product marketing for boring products
|
-- |
2025-09-15 |
931 |
--
|
|
Billing shouldn't just be PDF generation
|
-- |
2025-08-12 |
653 |
--
|
|
5 Powerful Ways to Launch Usage-Based Billing That Works
|
-- |
2025-08-04 |
1,294 |
--
|
|
AI Billing Infrastructure: What's required and how to build it
|
-- |
2025-06-17 |
1,177 |
--
|
|
How Lago Uses Lago: Tackling Our Own Billing Nightmares
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,089 |
--
|
|
The Ultimate Guide to Implementing Usage-Based Billing Models
|
-- |
2025-06-13 |
1,231 |
--
|
|
Launch Week IV Day 5: Pricing Group Keys
|
-- |
2025-06-20 |
192 |
--
|
|
Launch Week IV Day 2: Billing Activity Logs
|
-- |
2025-06-17 |
129 |
--
|
|
SaaS Billing Best Practices: How to Optimize Your B2B Billing Process
|
-- |
2025-07-22 |
1,267 |
--
|
|
How do entitlements work in SaaS?
|
-- |
2025-10-23 |
914 |
--
|
|
How we signed a world-famous AI company with a HackerNews post
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,132 |
--
|
|
How to Monetize AI Agents
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-06-02 |
980 |
--
|
|
What is Metered Billing?
|
-- |
2025-08-19 |
1,671 |
--
|
|
Finding The Right Billing System for SaaS: Complete Buyer's Guide
|
-- |
2025-09-01 |
1,381 |
--
|
|
Pricing psychology: SaaS pricing strategies that make users buy
|
-- |
2025-08-01 |
1,392 |
--
|
|
Launch Week III Day 4: Crypto payments are now available
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
77 |
--
|
|
Usage-Based Billing Secrets That Drive Serious Revenue Growth
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,380 |
--
|
|
Finding the Right Billing Model: Pricing and Monetization Models for Tech Companies
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-05-14 |
1,007 |
--
|
|
Bookings vs. Billings in SaaS: Complete Guide
|
-- |
2025-08-25 |
4,708 |
--
|
|
Choosing the Best RevenueCat Alternative in 2025
|
-- |
2025-07-31 |
1,181 |
--
|
|
8 SaaS usage-based pricing examples from successful SaaS companies
|
-- |
2025-07-03 |
1,882 |
--
|
|
6 Proven Pricing Models for AI SaaS (and How to Build Them)
|
-- |
2025-05-28 |
890 |
--
|
|
The How and Why of Metered Billing for Cloud Infrastructure
|
-- |
2025-08-25 |
1,336 |
--
|
|
Beyond Subscriptions: Powerful Billing Models for Modern Tech
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,405 |
--
|
|
Common misconceptions about using open-source products
|
-- |
2025-11-14 |
916 |
--
|
|
Why QA matters: Demystifying the 'QA-Free' philosophy
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,159 |
--
|
|
7 Proven Usage-Based Pricing Tactics for SaaS and AI
|
-- |
2025-06-02 |
1,048 |
--
|
|
What is value-based pricing and how does it work?
|
-- |
2025-08-11 |
1,595 |
--
|
|
How Mistral committed to Lago in 17 days and went to prod …
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,045 |
--
|
|
Launch Week IV Day 3: Lago à Avalara Integration — End Tax …
|
-- |
2025-06-18 |
133 |
--
|
|
Telecom billing: Best practices and systems to use
|
-- |
2025-08-18 |
1,423 |
--
|
|
What is freemium pricing in SaaS and how does it work?
|
-- |
2025-08-06 |
1,403 |
--
|
|
How to choose or build a billing system in the EU
|
-- |
2025-10-06 |
2,212 |
--
|
|
How enterprise pricing actually works (incl. examples)
|
-- |
2025-10-23 |
1,556 |
--
|
|
The Complete Guide to Accrued Revenue for SaaS Companies
|
-- |
2025-08-25 |
2,526 |
--
|
|
Top 7 Alternatives to Zuora for usage-based Billing
|
-- |
2025-08-12 |
2,145 |
--
|
|
What's the best billing system for GovTech companies?
|
-- |
2025-09-19 |
1,166 |
--
|
|
Introducing the future of Prepaid Credits: real-time burndown and top-up rules
|
-- |
2025-05-20 |
359 |
--
|
|
Monetize your AI product faster with Lago billing engine
|
-- |
2025-11-14 |
1,209 |
--
|
|
Why you shouldn't be your own ICP (we aren't)
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
943 |
--
|
|
Why we still build with Ruby in 2025
|
-- |
2025-08-18 |
690 |
--
|
|
How SaaS License Management Works
|
-- |
2025-10-23 |
1,388 |
--
|
|
SaaS Billing Systems That Handle Complex Pricing Models
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,297 |
--
|
|
What is revenue forecasting and how does it work?
|
-- |
2025-09-08 |
1,546 |
--
|
|
What are hybrid pricing models and how do they work?
|
-- |
2025-08-12 |
1,165 |
--
|
|
How to monetize APIs: Billing for your API product
|
-- |
2025-06-13 |
617 |
--
|
|
What is outcome-based pricing and how does it work?
|
-- |
2025-06-13 |
740 |
--
|
|
Full playbook: How to architect billing systems to power usage-based pricing
|
-- |
2025-08-05 |
2,167 |
--
|
|
What are credit-based pricing models and how do they work?
|
-- |
2025-06-13 |
1,393 |
--
|
|
Air gapped billing system: What it is, how it works and how …
|
-- |
2025-09-19 |
1,098 |
--
|
|
Lago Manifesto: Building billing shouldn't suck (for neither business nor eng)
|
-- |
2025-08-12 |
1,219 |
--
|
|
Self-hosted billing: When it works and how to do it
|
-- |
2025-08-11 |
1,348 |
--
|
|
The how and why of usage-based billing for SaaS
|
-- |
2025-05-29 |
1,106 |
--
|
|
Launch Week IV Day 4: Limit prepaid credits to specific charges
|
-- |
2025-06-19 |
46 |
--
|
|
How to Monetize Your API with Usage-Based Billing
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-06-02 |
878 |
--
|
|
Outcome-Based Pricing Explained: Definition, Applications, Benefits, and Challenges
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-06-12 |
1,798 |
--
|
|
IFRS 15 Explained: Key Points for Tech Billing
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-07-03 |
1,125 |
--
|
|
The tech stack we use to build Lago
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-08-04 |
653 |
--
|
|
Open-source licensing and why Lago chose AGPLv3
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-05-30 |
1,375 |
--
|
|
The 5 reasons why we chose open source
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-05-20 |
621 |
--
|
|
What is consumption-based billing?
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-06-19 |
669 |
--
|
|
Generating PDF invoices using Lago
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-07-28 |
835 |
--
|
|
How 1NCE scaled global IoT billing with Lago
|
Finn Lobsien |
2026-01-17 |
515 |
--
|
|
Sales compensation software
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-06-20 |
1,805 |
--
|
|
How Porter scaled self-serve billing with Lago
|
Finn Lobsien |
2026-01-17 |
372 |
--
|
|
Why Cost can outweigh Performance in DevTools
|
Finn Lobsien |
2024-06-26 |
1,270 |
--
|
|
Comparison of the best CPQ software
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-06-13 |
1,493 |
--
|
|
Learnings from 30 years in Go-To-Market: a chat with Jim Stoneham
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-05-24 |
1,740 |
--
|
|
How we got into YC, pre-product, pre-revenue
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-11-11 |
2,378 |
--
|
|
Why Heroku-like pricing models are hard to build
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-08-08 |
837 |
--
|
|
Pricing, my only growth hack at Qonto
|
Anh-Tho Chuong |
2022-04-15 |
1,696 |
--
|
|
Why Flipside Crypto's first and last billing system is Lago
|
Finn Lobsien |
2026-01-17 |
507 |
--
|
|
8 things to consider when choosing your billing system
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-06-28 |
1,299 |
--
|
|
Unpacking the B2B Payment Process
|
Finn Lobsien |
2024-04-22 |
1,225 |
--
|
|
How we ship fast: our framework
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-11-08 |
1,512 |
--
|
|
Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-05-16 |
1,999 |
--
|
|
Strategies for pricing software products in a down market
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-08-24 |
1,057 |
--
|
|
Traveling to the North Pole is like creating a startup
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-09-15 |
842 |
--
|
|
Payment Gateways
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-05-23 |
690 |
--
|
|
Sales Operations, Monetization and Pricing: a chat with Meghan Gill
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-08-04 |
1,657 |
--
|
|
Why Billing Engineers in Fintechs should be paid more
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-09-20 |
1,299 |
--
|
|
'Shape Up' Ryan Singer's advice to YC companies
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-05-30 |
1,328 |
--
|
|
VCs using scouts means founders get the short end of the stick
|
Anh-Tho Chuong |
2022-04-25 |
923 |
--
|
|
Launch Week II Day 2: Track overdue balance and prepare for dunning …
|
Finn Lobsien |
2024-07-23 |
531 |
--
|
|
How soon should you have a design system?
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-09-28 |
817 |
--
|
|
Post-mortem of our 1st YC startup: a Reverse ETL
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-12-15 |
3,008 |
--
|
|
Why billing is not just 'Build' or 'Buy'
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-08-17 |
1,005 |
--
|
|
AI Billing Explained: Automate and Optimize Invoices
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-07-30 |
1,300 |
--
|
|
Moving to the US after YC: SF, NYC... or Miami?
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-12-08 |
1,020 |
--
|
|
Understanding Billing System Software in Tech
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-07-03 |
1,038 |
--
|
|
"Building billing? It sucks!"—Why Arcee built with Lago instead
|
Finn Lobsien |
2026-01-18 |
494 |
--
|
|
The 777‐point Hacker News hit that got us 000 star
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-11-24 |
1,159 |
--
|
|
7 billing models you need to know if you work on pricing
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-09-30 |
1,437 |
--
|
|
6 steps to build a usage-based billing system
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-09-08 |
974 |
--
|
|
Does Stripe use Stripe Billing to bill its customers?
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-08-29 |
1,383 |
--
|
|
How we got our first 1000 Github stars for our Open Source …
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-12-15 |
1,182 |
--
|
|
Clone Slack's fair per-seat pricing in a simple way
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-09-30 |
942 |
--
|
|
Why companies should consider alpha and beta programs
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-10-29 |
1,559 |
--
|
|
Authorization & Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-05-03 |
459 |
--
|
|
Bill your customers in their timezone, not yours
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-01-24 |
403 |
--
|
|
Why is calculating Stripe MRR so difficult?
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-10-17 |
2,055 |
--
|
|
Open Source Billing Tools: Customize Your Revenue Engine
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-05-08 |
1,509 |
--
|
|
CPQ Software: Our Guide to Configure, Price, and Quote
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-05-27 |
1,156 |
--
|
|
Pricing, billing & open source: A chat with Algolia's co-founder
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-09-14 |
971 |
--
|
|
3 traps for unwary technical founders
|
Anh-Tho Chuong |
2022-10-05 |
1,105 |
--
|
|
Lessons on monetization, pricing, and PMF: a chat with Elena Verna
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-12-07 |
938 |
--
|
|
1046 upvotes: The ProductHunt playbook that made Lago product of the month
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-07-25 |
871 |
--
|
|
Europe needs to catch up on pivot culture
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-07-08 |
1,362 |
--
|
|
The best billing solutions for AI products and services
|
Finn Lobsien |
2025-09-30 |
961 |
--
|
|
Grace period to adjust invoice usage
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-01-24 |
458 |
--
|
|
Lune’s journey to perfecting API pricing (and saving the planet) with Lago
|
Finn Lobsien |
2026-01-19 |
485 |
--
|
|
Pricing AI: A Unit-Based Problem?
|
Finn Lobsien |
2024-07-15 |
1,935 |
--
|
|
ORMs are criticized for the wrong reasons
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-06-21 |
1,264 |
--
|
|
Refunds, Coupons & Credit Notes: why they are different
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-08-16 |
953 |
--
|
|
Using ClickHouse to scale your events engine
|
Finn Lobsien |
2024-02-24 |
1,541 |
--
|
|
Introducing the feature Fintechs were asking for
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-04-20 |
744 |
--
|
|
How to deal with massive unpaid AI bills
|
Finn Lobsien |
2024-06-27 |
467 |
--
|
|
Timezones: survival tips for engineers
|
Finn Lobsien |
2023-07-03 |
937 |
--
|
|
Engineers interviewing non-engineers: a guide to spotting red flags
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-12-15 |
1,160 |
--
|
|
Engineers need open source to end their billing nightmares
|
Finn Lobsien |
2022-06-01 |
2,442 |
--
|
|
Launch Week II Day 1: Accounting Integrations
|
Finn Lobsien |
2024-07-22 |
381 |
--
|
|
Why Cerebrium "doesn't even think about billing anymore"
|
Finn Lobsien |
2026-01-19 |
858 |
--
|
